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Research on the visual rabbit illusion takes a leap forward
Researchers uncover new conditions for a three-flash illusion that tricks the brain into misplacing the second flash.
When a series of light points flicker rapidly in the peripheral vision, we may mistake their true positions, thinking the flash is jumping from its original location to another spot. “It's like a rabbit hopping back to the middle after the brain processes it,” comments Sheryl Anne Manaligod de Jesus, the first author of the study and a doctoral student at Kyushu University's Graduate School of Design. As Professor Hiroyuki Ito, the supervisor of de Jesus and the second author from Kyushu University's Faculty of Design, remarks, “The most important thing is to enjoy the illusions.”
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